Steven Sugar

28 July 2023

Hi, I’m here now too! I’m Steven, I make illustrations and backgrounds for cartoons and art for games!

@pillowcastlegames.bsky.social

27 July

Frémont's Cottonwood

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Pillow Castle

3 July

So we prototyped a family tree roguelike inspired by one of our team member's love of historical family drama - Our first one in this genre, but Pedigreed's now on Itch! pillowcastle.itch.io/pedigreed. Let us know what you think! @itch.io

2 July

Concept art from a project I was working on at @pillowcastlegames.bsky.social last year!

Pillow Castle@pillowcastlegames.bsky.social

Some concept art from an old project that were working on last year! Our Miro board for this project is beautiful and takes forever to load. Thanks @stevensugar.art

Juniper

A couple pieces of visual development for an animation project from a few years back.

20 Apr

Moon Sentences An illustration for Realis, a collaborative storytelling TTRPG by @austinwalker.bsky.social and @possibleworlds.bsky.social! www.kickstarter.com/projects/cru...

20 Apr

Details, boat design, and initial sketches. The Moon Sentences art started as a sketch for the moon of Caust before getting the recurring band of characters added in!

16 Apr

Ephemera and Retirement Spot illustrations for Realis! www.kickstarter.com/projects/cru...

13 Apr

Greenharbor, the Truest World An illustration for one of the thousand moons of Realis! www.kickstarter.com/projects/cru...

13 Apr

Details and initial sketches!

13 Apr

The Blender blockout! The Greenharbor illustration was a bit of an experiment in spending more time tying down the composition and lighting in the model before drawing into it.

Caust, the Bitter Beach Moon For the moon-hopping storytelling TTRPG Realis by @austinwalker.bsky.social and @possibleworlds.bsky.social

9 Apr

Initial sketch, Blender blockout, and details!

6 Apr

Daniley, the Purple Flower Moon An illustration for the one of the thousand moons of Realis! www.kickstarter.com/projects/cru...

6 Apr

The two sketches I initially did for Daniley, a moon newly free from being under the thumb of the Leo Suzerainty and moving into a new industrial age.

Caust, the Bitter Beach Moon For the moon-hopping storytelling TTRPG Realis by @austinwalker.bsky.social and @possibleworlds.bsky.social

kickstarter.comRealisA new tabletop roleplaying game by Austin Walker

The Realis Kickstarter campaign is live starting today! This book is a phenomenal collection of evocative writing and beautiful art from a bunch of my favorite artists. Please check it out! www.kickstarter.com/projects/cru...

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Possible Worlds Games

@possibleworlds.bsky.social

kickstarter.comRealisA new tabletop roleplaying game by Austin Walker

REALIS IS LIVE! After 5 years of development, countless hours of playtesting, and invaluable ashcan feedback, the hardcover edition of @austinwalker.bsky.social's debut TTRPG Realis is now funding on Kickstarter April 1-30. Learn more & back the campaign today at www.kickstarter.com/projects/cru...!

28 Mar

New Big Hops DLC, New Big Hops art!

Chris Wade@luckshotgames.com

Today we're releasing a huge free content update: Cappler's Conspiracy! It's a whole 2+ hour photography game hidden inside BIG HOPS: store.steampowered.com/app/1221480/... Enjoy this little thread about it:

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12 Jan

I hit the button ✅😭🐸 🚨BIG HOPS is OUT NOW🚨 Get it on Steam | Switch | PS5 for just $17.99 with our 10% launch discount! #indiegames #nintendoswitch #ps5

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store.steampowered.comBig Hops on SteamTongue-swing, free climb, and build your own path forward in a new kind of 3D platformer! Plant veggie bounce pads, tightropes, hookshots, and much more. Find a way home through huge Desert, Ocean, an...

10 Dec 2025

We announced today with Day of the Devs that Big Hops will release on January 12th on PC, Switch, and PS5 And yes it runs great on Switch 2!!! Wishlist over here: store.steampowered.com/app/1221480/...

Day of the Devs@dayofthedevs.org

Tongue swing through 3 huge worlds to and make your way back home! Big Hops from @luckshotgames.com is a froggy action platformer with a bunch of slick movement tech and abilities. It'll hop onto your PC, Switch, or PS5 on January 12th, 2026.

kickstarter.comComing soon: RealisA new tabletop roleplaying game by Austin Walker

19 Nov 2025

🌒🌓🌔Realis! Coming soon!!!🌖🌗🌘

Possible Worlds Games@possibleworlds.bsky.social

Realis is coming sooner than you think! Sign up to be notified at launch when the print edition of @austinwalker.bsky.social's TTRPG goes live in 2026, and start bracing yourself for all the additional art, player options, and GM resources being added to the game: www.kickstarter.com/projects/cru...

28 May 2025

Big Hops— a wonderful indie platformer from @luckshotgames.com that I’ve been doing concept art for since 2020— has a demo out on Steam 🌟right now🌟 and a Kickstarter underway to help make the game the best it can be! Support ambitious indies and check it out!! www.kickstarter.com/projects/chr...

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25 May 2025

🚨HUGE News🚨 🐸BIG HOPS is a froggy platformer with deep movement, fresh tongue-gameplay, where you use powerful veggies to grow paths forward! ✨Free demo out NOW 🎮Coming to Nintendo Switch 1 & 2 in Q4 2025 💰Our publisher dropped us, so we're KICKSTARTING (links below)

Rooftop Pursuit

My final piece for Blender class! Wanted to try using the model more specifically for layout and rendering, while solving the color and details afterwards in Photoshop.

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22 Nov 2024

Bugs for #bighops by @stevensugar.art and @saphizzle.bsky.social !

21 Nov 2024

Arrival at the City Gate

21 Nov 2024

This was my penultimate piece for the #Blender class I took! Set out to treat this model as more of an underdrawing, and build it out specifically with the camera in mind.

19 Nov 2024

An experiment with hand drawn textures in #blender from earlier this year! Trying to bridge the gap between my Blender models and my illustrations.

19 Nov 2024

The textured model and its geometry!

19 Nov 2024

Another experiment! Trying out using two separate UV maps— one fully lit and one fully in shadow. The thought was that hand painting the lights and shadows would offer more granular control over the colors (and allow for some fun pops of saturation that only appear in the shadows!)

Took a Blender class earlier this year! The first assignment was to model a Game Boy!

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Took a Blender class earlier this year! The first assignment was to model a Game Boy!

The framing of the class was to make pieces relating to an original story pitch. Took a couple characters from an old illustration, reworked their designs a bit, and went from there— the first assignment was to design a food stall that could exist within the setting!

A couple more early pieces— learned a lot from doing these two! (Plus a first couple attempts at drawing into the models after the fact!)

@austinwalker.bsky.social

9 Nov 2024

Drew this back in 2019 to commemorate the end of Waypoint's Big Boy Season during that year's Save Point stream. Well, Save Point is back *right now!!* Go watch the @remapradio.bsky.social crew play Bloodborne: The Board Game at twitch.tv/remapradio and support a good cause while you're at it!

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austin_walker

9 Nov 2024

After 2 years, we're picking up our Bloodborne board game campaign as we continue to raise money for Anera! donate.remapradio.com to donate twitch.tv/remapradio to hang!

7 Nov 2024

A bit of early visual development work for #TheOwlHouse season 3! Some of the last work I did on the show back in 2021.

30 Oct 2024

Sorting through some of my old background design work from The Owl House! These are a few exteriors of the Selkidomus cave in the first episode of season 2.

4 Nov 2024

A handful more BG designs from various season 2 episodes!